I'd like a column in the "Order View" which simply states how many more of an item (+ve or -ve) is available over the dates of the opportunity.

This is a really useful tool when quickly quoting hires, informing job owners/planners how amending quantities within an opportunity will impact the job. It would also increase the value of the 'red line' function; allowing us to quickly see the quantity of the shortfall.

For example, I'd like to look at a list with some 55" comfort monitors, stands and 50m SDI cables and be able to see (when the client adds more monitors to the job) how many more systems I can add before causing shortfalls.

Currently there is no way of quickly seeing how many of an item are available from the "Order View". Of course you can select an item and see a detailed breakdown in the availability view but this can be time consuming when looking at numerous items.

I'd like a column in the "Order View" which simply states how many more of an item (+ve or -ve) is available over the dates of the opportunity.

This is a really useful tool when quickly quoting hires, informing job owners/planners how amending quantities within an opportunity will impact the job. It would also increase the value of the 'red line' function; allowing us to quickly see the quantity of the shortfall.

For example, I'd like to look at a list with some 55" comfort monitors, stands and 50m SDI cables and be able to see (when the client adds…

It would be ideal if I could set the days when our warehouse is closed and have Current RMS take this into account when dealing with post rent availability. For example, if the post rent availability is set to one day, and we have a show returning Saturday, then the item can not be booked out early Monday morning, because our shop would not have the opportunity to prep the equipment due to being closed on the weekend.

It would be a great help if we could set different dates of "use" for equipment on a per Opportunity Group basis, within one opportunity.

e.g. we have one opportunity which covers lighting and sound for a theatre show. Lighting packs in on the 1st, but sound doesn't pack in until the 4th. Between the 1st and 4th all the sound gear is shown as unavailable, when it actually is available. This leads to lots of 'false shortages' because we may use this sound gear for another gig on the 2nd.
The solution I'm after is to set a shorter date range (starting on the 4th) for the Audio group in the opportunity.

Yes, I could just split the job into two opportunities, with different date ranges, which would work for this simple example, but quickly gets messy (and confusing at invoice time) in more complex real life situations.

It would be a great help if we could set different dates of "use" for equipment on a per Opportunity Group basis, within one opportunity.

e.g. we have one opportunity which covers lighting and sound for a theatre show. Lighting packs in on the 1st, but sound doesn't pack in until the 4th. Between the 1st and 4th all the sound gear is shown as unavailable, when it actually is available. This leads to lots of 'false shortages' because we may use this sound gear for another gig on the 2nd.
The solution I'm after is to set a shorter…

A project would work in some cases here. A project is a bit like a folder for opportunities. You can create multiple opportunities with different dates or venues and add them to the same project. When it’s time to invoice, create a project invoice to bill for all of the opportunities at once!

We have just noticed that adding an product to a pre existing opportunity can give you a shortage if the product has ever been booked or quarantined in the past, within the pre existing opportunity's dates.

EG: I have a booking from the 5th May to 15th June. I reserve a Hard Drive on the 28th May for the opportunity. The Hard Drive was quarantined in the past (2nd - 9th May) which falls inside the dates of the opportunity.

The system is set to take into account the quarantine as as it's within the opportunities start and end dates and so shows a shortage.

Can this be changed to only take into account future bookings/quarantines on any item so they can be added to an opportunity as soon as they are back in stock, ignoring past booking overlaps.

Cheers

We have just noticed that adding an product to a pre existing opportunity can give you a shortage if the product has ever been booked or quarantined in the past, within the pre existing opportunity's dates.

EG: I have a booking from the 5th May to 15th June. I reserve a Hard Drive on the 28th May for the opportunity. The Hard Drive was quarantined in the past (2nd - 9th May) which falls inside the dates of the opportunity.

The system is set to take into account the quarantine as as it's within the opportunities start and end dates…

Currently, we are trying to implement the Product Availability planner into our pre-production workflow.

It would be great to be able to view shortages per barcode in the view. Say we have 5 Projectors (with individual barcodes) it would be great to see which projectors are booked at a certain moment on the planner.

This could either be as a tick box (similar to show quotations) or as a drop down.

Currently when looking at bookings for a product, the system shows all the bookings but does not show the total attached to each booking. It would be nice to see this number to avoid opening each individual opportunity and writing down the total number assigned to each booking.

In general would like to see better shortages reports by date parameters.

I'd like the system to only highlight an equipment shortage on any order that is processed after all kit has already been allocated on previous orders; the shortage should only show on that (or any subsequent orders where more more equipment may be short). We don't want all orders showing a shortage . We'd rather have an internal discussion to decide if we could use alternative equipment or where the equipment should go to to make the best revenue. Hope that this makes sense. VOTE HERE!! :)

Not sure if I am missing something here, but we get a lot of hires/projects that are ad hoc in nature vs. needing to be at a fixed time.
What we are trying to do is have Current be able to answer the question "when is the best time for this hire/activity to take place?" ie: solve for lowest cost, highest profit, product availability (eg: avoid subhires, use gear that's under utilised)
The MVP would simply be to find the optimal pick-up, delivery or hire window based on a resource's availability (eg: if you want a CDJ 2000, the first one available on that day is at 11AM) - if I want to override i can do a sub-hire or find an alternative product.

Not sure if I am missing something here, but we get a lot of hires/projects that are ad hoc in nature vs. needing to be at a fixed time.
What we are trying to do is have Current be able to answer the question "when is the best time for this hire/activity to take place?" ie: solve for lowest cost, highest profit, product availability (eg: avoid subhires, use gear that's under utilised)
The MVP would simply be to find the optimal pick-up, delivery or hire window based on a resource's availability (eg: if you want a CDJ 2000, the first…

We have a quick turn around on our gear. some of are gear is turned around and sent out the door in 20 minutes. When booking something returning at 2 pm and out again at 2:20 The system will not allow us to book without showing a conflict. If the system was accurate to 15 minutes instead of the current 1 hour, this would help us out big time.

When you click on Products and you view the list of Bookings, it shows the Subject, Organization, Start and End Date, but it does not show how much of that particular product is booked on that particular booking. You have to click on each one to see how many of a product is allocated to each booking. It would be a great feature to see in summary how many tables, for instance, are on a booking just by looking at that one screen.

Thanks for taking the time to post. Don’t forget you can always click “Availability” under Actions on the right to get to the Product Bookings screen that will show you all bookings for a product for a period:

This should be a really simple item to integrate - a simple highlight of the current day so one does not have to look for it when using a monthly view on the availability or planner views. I prefer the monthly view, but find myself always trying to locate the current day, when a simple alternate color for the current day would certainly make locating easier.

Sometimes i just want to get a view of all items that are out during a time range, without consuming the desktop real estate with blank views of unused items - so a filter to just show booked items, regardless of category. So one view of everything that is out for a period of time...

It'd be nice to have the ability to ignore the availability stock of certain consumables like tape. We typically charge for a roll of tape for a show but sometimes don't use the whole roll so it goes back into inventory for a partial roll to be used again. The software keeps telling me I'm out of tape even though I have partials from previous jobs.